Reviews of The Aarhus School of Business (HHA) | Denmark

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Pierre-Yves D

Solvay Business School - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, Socrates

Housing

Type of housing: Apartment/House

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why?

If one compare to student "kollegiet" or family houses as offered by the university of Aarhus, there are more place than family houses and more privacy than in Kollegiet (10 students usually share one common commodity room) in appartments (usually owned by students abroad). Obviously, there are exceptions to this statement.

Personal assessment

Cost

Facilities

Location

Cleanliness

Space

Personal comments

One Danish people's specificity is the cleanliness. You won't have bad surprise when you'll discover you're accomodation. Another positive point to concede to Danish is their organisation. Nearly everything is already planned (sometimes too many things!), and consequently, a lot of paper comes out of any modification of your "administrative" status. The drawback of it is slowliness...

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Pierre-Yves D

Solvay Business School - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, Socrates

Student life

Describe host city:

Activities, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal social experience

Activities

Nightlife

Travel

Overall

Personal comments

The Sam's Bar, The International Student Center (ISC), the beach, ...

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Pierre-Yves D

Solvay Business School - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, Socrates

Overall

I wish I had known...

That I was absolutely right not to hesitate to go abroad for a semester. That is one of the best thing that happened in my life by now. Meeting other cultures is so exciting and rich for you regarding your own personnality, culture, ...

In my opinion:

Everybody loved it, you will too!

Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important

Academic reasons

3

Culture

3

Costs

2

Activities

2

Campus life

2

Party / people

2

Weather / location

2

Personal recommendation

tolerance is one of the main key word

During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot

Became familiar with another culture

3

Traveled

3

Improved language skills

3

Met people from other countries

4

Became more independent

4

Partied a lot

4

Experienced a change in life

4

Advanced my studies & career

3

Final comments

as said in previous comments !

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Pierre-Yves D

Solvay Business School - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, Socrates

Academic

Course recommendations

My academic experiences

Quality of courses

Variety of courses

Access to resources

Interaction with teachers

Interaction with international students

Interaction with local students

Personal comments

They have a comprehensive way of studying. It might be positive with respect to the volume and the fact that, in our professional life, we will usually have to review our books to find out the theory we were looking for. But, on the other side, I feel like I do not really learn something.

My opinion of the university assessment

Exams at end of course

Exams throughout the course

Essays and/or projects at the end of course

Essays and/or projects throughout the course

Overall

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Pierre-Yves D

Solvay Business School - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, Socrates

Languages

Language of instruction: English

Local language was: Different than language of instruction

Was learning English a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my English

Was learning the local language a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my the local language

How much did you improve your English?

My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations

How much did you improve your the local language?

My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: Basic phrases

Language difficulties

Social

Educational

Administrative / Institutional

Overall

Personal comments

though danish do not speak english as natives, they cope with it better than in Belgium. I was really surprised and it helped me to improve my knowledge. nevertheless, time goes by, and I start to lose the fluency though I usually read english newspapers, follow lessons taught in english, ...

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Pierre-Yves D

Solvay Business School - ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Marketing and Sales Management, Graduate, Socrates

Expenses

Main source of funding:

Family

Other sources of funding:

Family

Work opportunities:

I worked during my study abroad experience

Personal spending habits

Food, activities in general are much more expensive in Dk thn in Belgium. Basically, you must add twenty percent to the unit cost in Belgium. A beer is sometimes about 40 EUR! Anyway, I travelled with erasmus friends by van and it was really cheap, and so rich with respect to socialisation. Since Aarhus is far more wanted for its accomodation than Brussels, the price is consequently nearly the same. In fact, Brussels is expensive for that.

Nightlife, Food, Overall:

was more expensive than at home.

Housing, Travel, Telephone:

was the same price as at home.

Accessibility of student needs

Second-hand text books

Second-hand household items

Computers / Internet

Administrative

Money from home

Personal comments